sneachta

Irish

sneachta m (genitive singular sneachta, nominative plural sneachtaí)

snow (precipitation)
Níorbh iontaí liom an sneachta dearg ná é.
Nothing would surprise me more (literally, Red snow would not be more surprising to me than that).

Declension of sneachta

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an sneachta	na sneachtaí
Genitive	an tsneachta	na sneachtaí
Dative	leis an sneachta don sneachta	leis na sneachtaí

Terms derived from sneachta

ar ghile an tsneachta, chomh geal le sneachta (“as white as snow”)
blár sneachta (“snow-field, expanse of snow”)
braillín sneachta (“covering of snow”)
bratóg shneachta f, calóg shneachta f, fíneog shneachta f, lóipín sneachta m, lubhóg shneachta f (“snowflake”)
brat sneachta (“mantle of snow”)
bróg shneachta f (“snowshoe”)
brúcht sneachta (“sudden heavy fall of snow”)
cáitheadh sneachta (“whirling snow-flakes, fall of snow”)
cáithnín sneachta m, cloch shneachta f (“hailstone”)
céachta sneachta m (“snow-plough”)
cith sneachta (“shower of snow”)
dairt sneachta (“(cast of) snowball”)
dealramh an tsneachta (“the glare of the snow”)
deargán sneachta m (“red-wing”)
duartan sneachta (“heavy fall of snow”)
fear sneachta m (“snowman”)
fras sneachta (“shower of snow”)
fuacht sneachta (“cold presaging snow”)
garbhóg shneachta f (“large hailstone”)
geadán sneachta (“patch of snow”)
gealóg shneachta f (“snow bunting”)
liopard sneachta m (“snow leopard”)

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
sneachta	shneachta after an, tsneachta	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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